Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] How to switch to DEP14 automatically for > 1000 existing repositories

[Xavier <yadd@debian.org>]

Bad list, repost here:

> Le 11/09/2020 à 18:14, Xavier a écrit :
>> Le 11/09/2020 à 12:42, Paolo Greppi a écrit :
>>> Hi Andreas,
>>>
>>> Il 11/09/20 12:16, Andreas Tille ha scritto:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> in teams where I have lots of packages (summing up to more than 1000)
>>>> I've touched) we followed the gbp default and have branches
>>>>
>>>>     master
>>>>     upstream
>>>>     pristine-tar
>>>>
>>>> and this is also the layout fixed in those team policies.  I admit I
>>>> don't have strong feelings about branch names but I'm willing to
>>>> normalize to some common standard which seems to be the now accepted
>>>> DEP14.  However, its not acceptable to change this manually.  As far as
>>>> to my experience it is hard to rename a default branch - at least I did
>>>> this in those rare cases when I had to rename a default branch by using
>>>> the Salsa web interface.
>>>>
>>>> My guess is that the Salsa API provides means to script everything.  Is
>>>> there any existing script that supports this or is there any volunteer
>>>> to write it.  I would start migrating Debian Med, Debian Science and
>>>> R packaging team repositories once gbp also switched to DEP14.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>>
>>>>        Andreas.
>>>
>>> I would use a Python library as client to the Gitlab API on salsa.
>>> We have this one already packaged in Debian:
>>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-gitlab
>>>
>>> Disclaimer: I have already used this library for a different purpose:
>>> https://salsa.debian.org/paolog/bts2salsa
>>>
>>> I am interested in working on this for the JavaScript team,
>>> but of course only if the team agrees to this bulk change.
>>>
>>> Paolo
>
> Hi,
>
> salsa(1) can do it. See "rename_branch" command in manpage.
>
> Cheers,
> Xavier

Something like:

  $ salsa --group xx-team --all --no-fail protect_branch master no
  $ salsa --group xx-team --all --no-fail rename_branch \
          --source-branch=master --dest-branch=debian/master
  $ salsa --group xx-team --all --no-fail rename_branch \
          --source-branch=upstream --dest-branch=master
  $ salsa --group xx-team --all --no-fail protect_branch master md

NB: I didn't verify if "--all" is compatible with these commands but I
can fix that if this doesn't work. I think Raphaël Hertzog tried it;
Raphaël, did you ?